Rivers APC Vows To Jail Mahmood Yakubu, The INEC Chairman

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has
vowed to jail the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu.

The Director, Strategic
Communications for the APC Campaign Organization, Prince Tonye
Princewill, also vowed that the 2019 presidential and National Assembly
election in Rivers State will be repeated if INEC fails to include the
party in the ballot.

Princewill also disclosed that a
delegation from the APC in Rivers state has served contempt proceedings
on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
Mahmood Yakubu, for not being independent enough.

Princewill, a
former governorship candidate in the state, said Yakubu will appear in
court to explain why he should not be sent to jail for disobeying
subsisting court orders and excluding APC in Rivers state.

He stated this is a statement he signed and made available to DAILY POST in Port Harcourt on Friday.

Princewill
said the “proceedings were served yesterday because INEC has shown us
that it is no longer independent. How else can you explain the speed
they acted after a judgement by Omotosho that said we should not only be
removed from the ballot, but we should also be barred from campaigning?
People should learn to fear God.

“Now that same Omotosho order
has been stayed, yet two weeks later, we’re still waiting for our rights
to be restored and INEC is comfortable that it has not been given to
us. To make matters worse, the Supreme Court last week, threw out the
appeal against the stay judgement. So what is still holding INEC?

“They
can not exclude us. But if they do, they will face the legal
consequences. We can either do this election once or they will conduct
it twice. The law is on our side.”

He thanked Rivers people for
showing restraint and implored them to come out and vote as who becomes
President is who determines the leaders in the state

Source:- Independentng